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The article presents abstracts on topics about social issues in management which include the impact of social context by employees' negative interpersonal relations, the importance for organizations of understanding why people engage in ethical and unethical behavior, and the effects of collaborative work on individuals' dishonesty.

The article presents abstracts on technology and innovation management topics which include the role of absorptive capacity as a multilevel construct, ways in which executives drive organizational ambidexterity, and the role of science and technology studies in deepening the understanding of routines dynamics.

The article presents abstracts on research method topics which include the use of historical data to develop entrepreneurship theory, the contextualization of energy research in organizations, and the methodology of ethnography.

The article presents abstracts on entrepreneurship topics which include community involvement of businesses, conducting business under adverse conditions in developing countries, and international strategies for examining new-venture partnerships.

The article presents abstracts on organization and management theory topics that include the role of individuals in organizations' creation and maintenance of absorptive capacity, the effect of mobility on access to an inventor's prior knowledge, and dynamic value appropriation of differentiated human capital.

The article presents abstracts on organizational behavior topics which include the impact of negative interpersonal interactions on employees, gender stereotyping and bias in organizations and the mediating role of moral disengagement.

The article presents abstracts on technology and innovation management topics which include the way modularity works in real world organizations, the effect of external learning on radical innovation in the high-technology industry, and the organizational antecedents and consequences of absorbing technological knowledge.

The article presents abstracts on topics about social issues in management which include the responses of firms to radical regulatory change, plagiarism among Academy of Management members, and a global governance framework for corporate social responsibility.

The article presents abstracts on organizational behavior topics which include the congruence effects of leaders' and followers' proactive personality on follower work outcomes, the stress-performance relationship within a combined stress-justice framework, and the influence of abusive supervision and organizational factors on organizational citizenship behaviors.

The article presents abstracts on management education and development topics which include international perspectives on knowledge exchange, the use of psychological contracting in careers, and the antecedents to the motivation to lead.

The article presents abstracts on management consulting topics which include actor networks in research that affect theory and practice, entrepreneurship in professional service firms, and the characterization and practice of executive coaching.

The article presents abstracts on international management topics which include the contextualization of energy research in organizations, implications of the Buddhist world view for leadership development, and cross-cultural mentoring.

The article presents abstracts on organization and management theory topics which include differences between Convention Theory and New Organizational Institutionalism, the relationship between status and uncertainty, and the people variations in networks that can affect organizational performance.

The article presents abstracts on business policy and strategy topics which include the role of absorptive capacity as a multilevel construct, re-tooling and re-tasking in agency theory, and theories on organization goals and performance feedback.

The article presents abstracts on public and nonprofit management which include a process model of public sector innovation, organizations' use of value-related information in job advertisements, and the study of venture philanthropy in a nonprofit and philanthropic context.

The article presents abstracts of international management topics which include the role of personal values in job choice, international research and development networks in the consumer electronics industry, and immigrant entrepreneurs' bicultural identity integration and social capital creation.

The article presents abstracts on organization development and change topics which include societal compassion response to natural disasters, transformational leaders' promotion of innovation in research and development teams during change, and the influence of organizational clarity and confidence on change readiness.

The article presents abstracts on topics about organizations and the natural environment which include barriers to greening the relief supply chain, alignment of consumers around low-carbon competitiveness, and the application of scenario analysis in industry sectors regarding climate change adaptation.

The article presents abstracts on operations management topics which include differences in operations management research agendas of North America and Europe, structural ambidexterity in high technology organizations, and the effects of asset specificity and trust on inter-company knowledge sharing.

The article presents abstracts on organizational communication and information systems which include the application of experience in a new product development team, the use of a commons perspective to examine the dynamic interplay between private-public interests around large-scale information technology systems, and virtual, written-based knowledge sharing.

The article presents abstracts on managerial and organizational cognition topics which include the rationalization of ethical and unethical behaviors, leadership characteristics in firm survival, and individual and group creativity in service organizations.

The article presents abstracts on business policy and strategy topics which include the complexities of top management team (TMT) composition, insights about dynamic capabilities observed from simulated evolving competition, and venture capital syndication in China.

The article presents abstracts on human resources topics which include training and competence development during organizational change, the relationship between discretion and turnover intentions, and the management of resources in the impression management process.

The article presents abstracts on health care management topics which include the role of managed networks as an organizational form in British health care, the management of hospital physician relationships, and racial disparities in patient care.

The article presents abstracts on topics about gender and diversity in organizations which include the role of gender self-categorization and emotion on prejudicial attitudes and experiences of aggressive behavior, the disconnect between diversity management policy and implementation, and attitudes towards women managers.

The article presents abstracts on entrepreneurship topics which include the influence of tie-order on network emergence, a complexity science-based model for innovation and the formation of entrepreneurial enterprises, and fuzzy-set hierarchical classification of family businesses.

The speed of product development is crucial to creating and sustaining competitive advantage. This paper examines how a development project's relation to the developing firm and its technological knowledge base influences the rate at which products succeed or fail. More specifically, I introduce two dimensions along which ¡°distance¡± between a firm and project can be created: the locus of initial development and the technological relevance to a firm's knowledge base. Integrating previously conflicting views on the success rates of alliances, I propose that projects originating from outside the firm will have a higher rate of successful development, but the effect is enhanced when the collaborative project is technologically relevant to a firm's knowledge base allowing the firm to screen out potential ¡°lemons¡±. Furthermore, I test the idea that projects will have a slower rate of success when projects are either highly and lowly relevant to a firm's existing technology base. Finally, I examine the rate of development for failed projects and propose that factors that promote faster development will paradoxically slow the rate of failure for these projects. Using project data of 2,114 drug development projects from 1980 to 2003, I find that the hazard of succeeding is higher when drugs are developed in an alliance between firms and especially so when these in-licensed projects are closer to its technological knowledge base. However, alliances are also shown to extend the development period for failed drugs, implying that strategies of buying promising drug candidates can result in higher costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars are paying increasing attention to the risks associated with organizational change. However, one important type of change--technological innovation--has appeared to be immune, at least implicitly, from such risks, and little attention has been given to the possibility that frequent innovation can be as hazardous as other kinds of organizational change. This paper argues that there may be tradeoffs to high rates of technological change. The costs are of two kinds: overestimating the advantages and receptiveness of the innovation, and the organizational disruptions associated with frequent innovation. Using data on the population of worldwide floppy disk drive manufacturers, we analyze (1) the effect of the frequency of innovation on organizational mortality; (2) the extent to which the relationship between innovation and survival may interact with important organizational characteristics such as size, age and entry status; and (3) whether innovators that are large, old, or de alio generate strong competition. We find that the average firm is likely to fail the more frequently it innovates, but also that large and, to a lesser extent, de alio innovators are less likely to fail. We also find that large innovators generate more powerful competition. Advice to managers to engage in continuous innovation can therefore be misguided because unless firms are large, they may incur costs that are so great that the firm actually "fails" by innovating frequently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of conference papers related to technology and innovation management. "Deploying Intellectual Capital for Architectural Innovative Capabilities," by Mohan Subramaniam; "Exploring Industry Implications of Organizational Learning," by David R. King; "The Fragility of Knowledge Sharing: A Behavioral Approach," by Georg Von Krogh; "When Do Acquisitions Facilitate Technological Exploration and Exploitation?," by Paul Almeida.

The structure of alliance networks strongly influences their potential for knowledge creation. Dense local clustering provides bandwidth in the network by fostering communication and cooperation while non-redundant connections contract the distance between firms and give the network greater reach by tapping a wider range of knowledge resources. However, since firms are constrained in forming alliances, there appears to be a trade-off between creating bandwidth versus reach. We argue that small world connectivity helps resolve this tradeoff by enabling bandwidth and reach to be achieved simultaneously. We propose that firms embedded in alliance networks that exhibit the characteristic small world properties of high clustering and short average path lengths (i.e., high reach) will experience greater knowledge creation than firms in networks that are not small worlds. We find support for this proposition in a longitudinal study of the patent performance of 1106 firms in 11 industry-level alliance networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a sample of 267 business groups that operated in Taiwan between 1981 and 1998, this study examines the effect of international joint ventures (IJVs) on the innovative performance of business groups in an emerging economy. Contrary to received wisdom, we find a systematic negative impact of IJV on groups' innovativeness, measured by number of patent applications, both new invention patent and process patent. This relationship between IJV and group innovativeness also varies across business groups with different strategic orientation (measured by group-level product and geographic diversification) and internal structure (such as, intra-group network density). Specifically, the negative effects of IJV on group innovativeness intensify with group-level product diversification while the negative effects of IJV decline with group-level geographic diversification and business density. The results are robust to both parametric as well non-parametric regression techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts from conference symposia concerning technology and innovation management. "Institutional Entrepreneurship" discusses the nature of interdependence in organizations and how it affects institutional change, entrepreneurship and innovation. "A New Vision of Managing R&D Consortia in the 21st Century" focuses on strategic alliances and consortia in product innovation. "Managing Distributed Innovation: Multiple Perspectives," investigates joint ventures in different phases of product or service innovation.

The article presents conference symposia abstracts on social issues in management. "The Role of Governance in Corporate Social Responsibility," discusses corporate governance and social responsibility. "Corporate Social Performance: Implications for Individual Behavior and Firm Financial Performance," examines the discourses of sustainability as they pertain to biotechnology and agricultural futures. "Boards of Directors/Boards of Trustees: Common Ground? Governance Structures and Performance," focuses on the relationship between profit and nonprofit governance theory and research.

The notion that innovation is a route to higher levels of organizational performance in public agencies is examined in this critical review. Substantial support for the innovation-performance hypothesis is found in the published quantitative studies. The evidence first points towards the importance of simultaneously introducing product and process innovations and second highlights the mediating role that innovation plays in the management-performance relationship. The evidence does not, however, allow clear conclusions to be reached on where, when and how a strategy of organizational innovativeness should be pursued. Major conceptual, methodological and empirical issues are addressed in a research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents organization and management theory conference paper abstracts. "Factors That Impact Sales Person's Performance in Virtual Environments" aims to understand the effects of sales persons' location on their sales quota achievement. "Can Progress Be Resistant to Bad Institutions? The Case of ICT" shows that cross-country differences in the use of information and communication technologies are to a considerable extent due to differences in the investment climate. "Chance, Choice, & Inevitability in Strategy," discusses strategic choice.

The article presents several conference paper abstracts on public and nonprofit organization management. "Community Foundation, Organizational Strategy, and Public Policy," about the strategic plan of California community foundations. "The Influence of Top Executive Functional Experience on Nonprofit Organization Financial Performance," discusses the relationship between a chief executive officer and the organization. "Innovation and Organizational Performance: A Critical Review of the Evidence and a Research Agenda," focuses on how innovation helps performance in public agencies.

Drawing on a unique network analysis of co-authored scientific papers, I compare the evolution of knowledge networks in two well-matched rust belt cities: Akron, Ohio and Rochester, New York. I find that local universities in each city attempted to play a larger role in generating innovation in their regions, but took very different approaches to doing so. One employed a "fountain" approach which sought to assert itself as the central hub in the region's knowledge networks thus filling the vacuum left by the decline of the old industry actors who had previously dominated the local economy. The other faced similar circumstances, but employed a "forum" approach which aimed at building relationships among organizations in the region. Evidence from the network analysis suggests the two approaches have shaped the evolution of knowledge networks in the two regions. Qualitative data and descriptive statistics suggest that this, in turn, has influenced the way that knowledge spills over in each community leading to differences in innovative activity among small companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The abilities to learn, innovate and continuously improve are essential to firms' survival and prosperity in the turbulent environment of the new economy. Cooperative relationships between firms and suppliers can play an important role in enhancing firms' continuous improvement, learning and innovation. However, when suppliers become highly dependent on firms, this dependency hinders suppliers' creativity and innovation. We argue that to optimize suppliers' contributions to firms' learning and innovation, firms in the new economy should look for and forge relationships with a new breed of independent suppliers that develop strong cooperative and relational ties to firms. We provide empirical evidence from a longitudinal case study of 8 leading companies in the U.S. computer industry to support our argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents organization and management theory conference symposia abstracts. "Organizational Identity: Meanings, Constraints, Sanctions and Consequences" contains presentations on organizational identity, new theoretical developments and empirical evidence developing this line of thought. "Interdependence in Organizations, Circa 2005," considers the nature of interdependence in organizations and its consequences for organizational actors at all levels. "Set-Theoretic Methods in Management and Strategy Research," discusses set-theoretic methods in social sciences.

This article presents several abstracts of studies about organization development and change. In the paper titled "Towards a Holistic Theoretical Framework for the Unfolding of Planned Change," develops a framework for the unfolding of planned change efforts using as empirical field of investigation longitudinal case studies from Greek public organizations that currently are undergoing radical change. "A Construct Validation of a New Job Insecurity Measure (JIM): The Emerging Role of Management" explores the dimensionality of job insecurity. "Responding to a Changing Environment: Adapting Human and Social Capital to Impact Performance," that investigates how a firm responds to a changing environment using a resource-based perspective.

Enabling employees to integrate knowledge from different areas of expertise within the organization (i.e. cross-departmental knowledge) is one way to sustain competitive advantage within a firm. However, management must provide the proper support to help employees overcome the interpretive barriers encountered when crossing departmental boundaries. This study couples the theory of thought worlds with the theory of hermeneutic inquiry to determine whether knowledge management technology can help. More specifically, this study proposes that the use of technology features that support cross-departmental understanding is positively related to the perceived value of cross-departmental knowledge on innovation, a key indicator of future innovation. The study employed a two-wave survey of 874 scientists and engineers. Findings indicated support for the hypothesis, even after controlling for other supportive mechanisms, including: people-to-people interaction, perceived openness of communication, perceived task complexity, and perceived ease of use of technology. More specifically, the findings suggest that cross-departmental knowledge is more highly valued for innovation when technology features help individuals find diverse opinions, see how knowledge about a situation has evolved over time, link general overviews of knowledge about a situation to additional related details, and actively add to the knowledge as it evolves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents abstracts of several symposia on organizational communication and information systems. "Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" reviews the roles teams play in organizations in the 21st century. "The Role of Technology in Acquiring Human Capital in the 21st Century," studies the benefits of acquiring human capital in human resources. "Structuring Team Knowledge: Dimensions, Beliefs, Distribution, & Coordination," discusses how knowledge is used by teams in organizational structures.

This section presents several abstracts of research about organizational communication. The progress of the past seven years of field study research on work group effectiveness was examined in the paper titled "Work Team Effectiveness Field Research: Progress and Prospects." An analysis of thirty-six empirical studies reveals that work team field research is proceeding primarily along dimensions of interdependence, autonomy, diversity and conflict. In the paper "Temporal Effects of Relational Stocks on Technology-Enabled Group Performance," the authors extend existing group development models by employing a complementary stock perspective. Results suggest more complex implications of utilizing technology than previously observed delays in relational development that accompanies technology use.

This section presents abstracts of several studies on organizational behavior. "Darwinism, Behavioral Genetics, And Organizational Behavior: A Review and Agenda for Future Research," which reviews the evolutionary proecsses and behavioral genetics for organizational behavior. "A Meta-Analysis of Stress and Performance at Work: Moderating Effects of Gender, Age, and Tenure," studies the relationship between stresses and work performance. "The Role of Leader Behaviors and Leader-Member Exchange in Customer Service," discusses the evaluation of leader-member exchange in salons in Taiwan.

This section presents abstracts of several symposia on organizational behavior. A symposium on building a safer health system was conducted by focusing on the errors committed in hospitals. A study on organizational justice was also conducted. Such justice is one of the most widely studied topics in the fields of organizational behavior, human resources management, and conflict management by scholars throughout the world. Another team of researchers explored organizational and individual responses to identity threats. A study on understanding the antecedents and motivational processes underlying transformational leadership was also conducted.

This section presents abstracts of conference papers about managerial and organizational decision making. Some of the abstracts include "Emotional Intelligence and Communication Perceptions During Conflict and Decision Making," focusing on how business intelligence helps organizational effectiveness, "Knowledge Sharing and Team Effectiveness in Challenging Organizational Environments," about how management teams benefit from external knowledge, and "A Small World After All? Network Perceptions Versus Reality," that discusses how social networks can affect an organization.

This section presents several management education and development conference paper abstracts. They include, "The Effect of Instructional Delivery Method on Student Achievement," regarding the educational value of undergraduate human resource management classes, "A Personal and Experimental Reflection on Teaching and Learning wtih the Consultant Learning Method," about an analysis of undergraduate and graduate management courses, and "What it Means to Supervise: A Phenomenographic Study of Doctorial Student Supervision," discussing what doctoral supervisors look for in their management students.

This section presents several management consulting conference paper abstracts. The abstracts include "Education and Experience as Antecedents of the Performance of Management Consultants," that analyzes human capital in terms of education and experience; "Being Human: The Real Challenge for the 21st Century," about relationships within business; and "Designing and Processing a Socio-Economic Management Control," which discusses social performance of management control.

This section focuses on several studies presented at a conference on international management. The article, "The Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies on National Patters of Corruption and Software Piracy," focuses on the impact of trade liberalization policies on national patterns of corruption and software piracy. "Repetition of Foreign Market Entry Forms: Managerial and Organizational Drivers," studies the repetition of forms of entry in a foreign market by taking into account not only organizational factors but also the managerial risk determinants of such repetitions. "Foreign Expansion Under Uncertainty: A Strategic Real Options Perspective," investigates the expansion of 30 of the largest global manufacturing companies in 6 industries in China over the last 20 years.

This paper studies the role of top managers' leadership for innovation, a strategically important issue epitomizing the core problem of innovation research. We examine that issue in the context of social culture. On the basis of the theories of leadership and the management of innovation, we develop a conceptual model, suggesting that top managers' leadership behaviors shape their influence on innovation in several ways: through internalization/personal identification, encouraging diversity of opinions, providing protected environments, and compliance. This principal relationship is influenced by socio-cultural context in a complex way. On the one hand, socio-cultural context has a direct effect on the prevailing leadership behaviors. On the other hand, socio-cultural context moderates the relationship of top managers' leadership behaviors with their influence on innovation. We tested the model with data from 1,773 respondents representing 270 business units in 12 European countries. The results support our theoretical model. Leadership behaviors have a strong influence on top managers' influence on innovation, explaining almost 50% of the variance. Our results also support a culture-specific view of leadership, while challenging the claim that leadership behaviors may be universally effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]